CURVESCOUT / MOTORCYCLE RIDE
Ordered leg totals agree within rounding. Stop distances are approximate sums of rounded legs. Stops, delays, approach and any separate return travel add time. Basis: producer-declared routed record.
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A 333 km round trip from Ig - roughly 6 h 06 in the saddle. The stops in between: Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the, City Fortress of Palmanova and back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the. It crosses from Slovenia into Italy - carry ID and check vignette or toll rules. The line favours views over speed.
The Ljubljana Marsh is a wide, flat plain of peat and wet meadow south of the city, drained since the eighteenth century by canals, and it hides one of the most interesting stories in European prehistory. Some five thousand years ago people built houses on stilts here, at the edge of lakes that have since vanished, and the remains of their villages lie preserved in the peat. The pile dwellings near Ig are part of the UNESCO listing of prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, shared with five other countries.
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Količa na Igu is where the day begins. Next is Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the.
Deep in a wooded gorge above Idrija, where the stream called Idrijska Bela tumbles over pale limestone, stands one of the strangest pieces of old engineering in Slovenia: a klavže, a water barrier built of massive dressed stone blocks across the narrow valley. Its job had nothing to do with power or flood control. Idrija's mercury mine, one of the two largest in the world for centuries, devoured timber for its shafts and smelters, and the forests close to town were soon exhausted. So the miners built these dams on mountain streams, let water build up behind them, piled cut logs in the bed below and then opened the gates. The released flood swept the timber all the way down to Idrija, where it was caught at a rake across the river.
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Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the comes up about 74 km into the recorded legs. Next is City Fortress of Palmanova.
From the air Palmanova is a perfect nine-pointed star, and even from the saddle you can feel the geometry. The roads come in through monumental gates, cross the moats and ramparts, and run dead straight to a vast hexagonal piazza in the middle, where the whole town seems to stop and look at itself. It is one of the purest examples of an ideal Renaissance city ever built, and it sits on the flat Friulian plain between Udine and the Adriatic like a diagram that somebody forgot to take back.
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about 167 km into the recorded legs you reach City Fortress of Palmanova. Next is back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the write-up.
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back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the, late in the day. Next is Količa na Igu.
Return visit. Read the place description above.
Read the complete Količa na Igu write-up.
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Back at Količa na Igu. That is the ride.
Količa na Igu → Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the is 74 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.
Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the → City Fortress of Palmanova is 93 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
City Fortress of Palmanova → back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the is 86 km of getting across. Ride it tidily and keep the enthusiasm for what comes after.
back through Idrijska Bela - Belca Water Barrier on the → Količa na Igu is 80 km of rhythm rather than effort. Let it flow and let the view breathe.